Purpose

As an important platform for academic communication and knowledge acquisition, academic social network (ASN) has attracted worldwide researchers. The purpose of this paper is to examine and compare the differences of corporation researchers in ASN utilization from the two aspects of social performance and academic performance.

Design/methodology/approach

Applying knowledge-based theory, this paper decoupled ASN into social network and academic network and measured utilization of users by social performance and academic performance. Hypotheses were proposed from the perspectives of research areas and corporate reputation. In the part of empirical research, the top 92 research corporations were selected as the sample, and relevant metric data from the member profile pages on ResearchGate was collected for comparing analysis to explore their utilization characteristics.

Findings

The results show that users of different research corporations have certain favoritism in their utilization of ASNs. Science and technology-oriented corporations are better in comprehensive social performance and academic quality. Science-oriented corporations are better at utilizing the interactive functions. However, neither social utilization nor academic utilization, technology-oriented corporations perform well.

Originality/value

This paper focuses on corporation researchers, who have started to embrace ASNs but whose behaviors were less studied. The research paradigm is an expansion and enrichment of the dual network decoupling theory in the field of ASN research. It also deepens the research on ASN utilization of corporation researchers and could give references for ASNs to improve service for corporation users in different research areas.

Peer review

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中文翻译：

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偏向还是平等：顶尖研究公司用户对学术社交网络使用的差异分析

目的

作为学术交流和知识获取的重要平台，学术社交网络（ASN）吸引了全球研究人员。本文的目的是从社会绩效和学术绩效两个方面研究和比较企业研究人员在ASN利用率方面的差异。

设计/方法/方法

运用基于知识的理论，将ASN分解为社交网络和学术网络，并通过社交绩效和学术绩效来衡量用户的使用率。从研究领域和企业声誉的角度提出了假设。在实证研究部分，选择了排名前92位的研究公司作为样本，并从ResearchGate的会员资料页面上收集了相关的指标数据以进行比较分析，以探讨其利用特征。

发现

结果表明，不同研究公司的用户在使用ASN时都有一定的偏爱。科技型公司的综合社会绩效和学术质量较好。面向科学的公司更善于利用​​交互功能。但是，无论是社会利用还是学术利用，技术型公司的表现都不错。

创意/价值

本文关注的是公司研究人员，他们已经开始接受ASN，但是其行为却研究较少。研究范式是对ASN研究领域中的双重网络去耦理论的扩展和丰富。这也加深了企业研究者对ASN利用率的研究，可以为ASNs提供参考，以改善不同研究领域企业用户的服务。

同行评审

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